geomancy

geomancy - divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another)

This construct provides accommodations for new age practices; yoga and martial arts originating from spiritual disciplines such as kungfu, judo, and taekwando, redesigning workstations according to fengshui or geomancy, placement of deity images or crystals at workstations to invoke positive energy.

All of these experts in the occult--who sometimes play the 'animism' card (including geomancy and various forms of pre-Islamic polytheisms), sometimes the card of a certain type of Islam, and sometimes both--are regularly consulted in reaction to the suspected plots of allies and acquaintances, and, in turn, feed suspicions regarding the familial and political entourage.

There is ample evidence of women's entry and inroads into professions such as medicine, law and finance, but hardly any study has been made of women becoming successful in the business of producing and selling Chinese culture, filling niches that were either traditionally not seen as major business opportunities or else--as in the case of geomancy and patent medicine, for example (Cochran 2006, p.

When Butts was introduced to the occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley in the first half of 1921 her keen preoccupation with clairvoyance, divination and geomancy, partly fostered by reading Haggard's African romances, deepened.

Some Singaporeans have said the case is reminiscent of the tussle between the estate of the late Nina Wang and a geomancy master, Tony Chan, who claimed to be the sole beneficiary of her $13 billion fortune after her death at 69 in 2007.

8) In terms of critical discourse, one easily finds that the criticism of fiction assimilated the same set of critical vocabulary as that originally intended for drama, poetry, painting and calligraphy, embroidery, or even garden architecture and "wind and water" geomancy.

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